Category Archives: Playlists

Eclectic Mainline 19th June 2013

As regular listeners to Eclectic Mainline will know, I can’t keep up with all the music downloads that get sent my way and far prefer a 5″ shiny disc, or even better a 7″ or 12″ black disc, or…even better…. a 7″ orange disc. Which is precisely what landed in the postpile a couple of weeks ago from Affairs Of The Heart Records, the new single by The Elwins:

The Elwins - Forgetful Assistance 7" orange vinyl

That’s how it looks, and this is how it sounds. (Affairs Of The Heart have chosen not to enable embedding of the song, so you will have to click through to hear it I’m afraid).

Also in the show tonight was this by COH:

…and two songs from the 2012 Guided By Voices album Class Clown Spots a UFO, including this one:

You will find the full show available to listen again on this page.  Here is the playlist:

Guided By Voices – ‘Chain to the Moon’ (LP – Class Clown Spots a UFO) (Fire)
COH – ‘Aniki’ (LP – RETRO-2038) (Editions Mego)
Camera Obscura – ‘Every Weekday’ (LP – Desire Lines) (4AD)
Thundercat – ‘A Message For Austin / Praise The Lord / Enter The Void’ (LP – Apocalypse) (Brainfeeder)
Alela Diane – ‘About Farewell’ (single) (Believe)
Eat Lights Become Lights – ‘Modular Living’ (LP – Modular Living) (Rocket Girl)
Happy Families – ‘New Forgetting’ (single) (Sonic Cathedral)
Beans On Toast – ‘Bear and a Burger’ (single and LP – Fishing For A Thank You) (Xtra Mile)
The Elwins – ‘Forgetful Assistance’ (single) (Affairs Of The Heart)
Nancy Elizabeth – ‘Simon Says Dance (Matthew Bourne remix)’ (single) (The Leaf Label)
Landshapes – ‘In Limbo’ (single) (Bella Union)
Frank Bretschneider – ‘Big Hopes’ (LP – Super.Trigger) (Raster Noton)
Big Deal – ‘Dream Machines’ (single and LP – June Gloom) (Mute)
Guided By Voices – ‘All Of This Will Go’ (LP – Class Clown Spots a UFO) (Fire)
Robyn Hitchcock – ‘End Of Time (Re-mix)’ (single) (Yep Roc)

Going North from Nashville Celebrates The Beatles! Monday 17th June, 10-11pm

Featuring a host of Beatle’s covers & Beatle related songs, Going North from Nashville celebrates the band, 50 years after they shot to international fame!

The  Handsome Family & The Rivet Gang: Eleanor Rigby

Tony Sheridan & the Beatles: Sweet Georgia Brown

CW Stoneking: Maggie Mae

Lizzie Nunery: Company of Ghosts

Sonnenberg: Mersey Moon

Bob Dylan: Fourth Time Around

Thea Gilmour: I Want to Tell You

George Harrison: All Those Years Ago

Paul Mc Cartney: The Song We Were Singing

The Beatles: Octopus’s Garden

 A Girl Called Eddy : Julia

 Sarabeth Tucek : Goodnight

Luke Powers: Cover Song ( for Sgt Pepper)

Bob Dylan: Roll On John

Eclectic Mainline 12th June 2013

New music in this week’s show from The Growlers:

…Robert Pollard:

…and Greg Haines:

The full show is available on today’s BCB Listen Again page. Here is the playlist:

The Growlers – ‘Someday’ (LP – Hung At Heart) (Fat Cat)
Small Black – ‘No Stranger’ (single) (Jagjaguwar)
Anna Von Hausswolf – ‘Mountain Crave’ (single) (City Slang)
Ravi Shardja – ‘Attaque sournoise du Kopassus à Wamena’ (LP – Grün ist Grau) (Grautag)
Iceage – ‘Wounded Hearts’ (single) (Matador)
Vampire Weekend – ‘Step’ (LP – Modern Vampires Of The City) (XL)
Fela Kuti – ‘Zombie’ (LP – Zombie) (Knitting Factory)
Kid A – ‘BB Bleu (Daedelus remix)’ (single) (Technicolour)
Liars – ‘I Saw You From The Lifeboat’ (free download from liarsliarsliars.com)
Nancy Elizabeth – ‘The Last Battle’ (LP – Dancing) (The Leaf Label)
Robert Pollard -‘I Killed A Man Who Looks Like You’ (single) (Fire) (this week’s Brief Candle)
Low – ‘Plastic Cup’ (LP – The Invisible Way) (Sub Pop)
Greg Haines – ‘Habenero’ (LP – Where We Were) (Denovali)

Going North from Nashville’s Pick & Mix, featuring a good helping of new music! Monday 3rd June – 10-11pm

Phosphorescent : Song for Zula – a striking song from recent album Muchacho

Ethan Johns : Don’t Reach Too Far – found on his (Ryan Adam’s produced) album, If Not Now Then When

Ryan Adams : Kindness – lovely track from Ryan’s Ashes & Fire, produced by Ethan’s dad – Glyn

Keaton Henson : Sarah Minor – from beautifully understated acoustic offering, Dear

The Soft Hills : Mr Moonlight – found on Chromatisms

Beth Orton : Dawn Chorus – from acclaimed 2012 album, Sugaring Season

Beck : Go It Alone – on 2005’s Guero, featuring Jack White on bass

Jack White : Hip(Eponymous) Poor Boy –  from last year’s Blunderbuss

Marika Hackman: Cannibal – from her debut mini album That Iron Taste

Nick Cave : Push the Sky Away – title track from his awesome new album

The Flowers of Hell : Mr Tambourine Man – interesting version, featuring on their 2013 album Odes

Sam Sallon : A Long Way Down -  single from his debut One for the Road

Harper Simon : 99 – found on second offering from son of Paul, Division Street

Eclectic Mainline 29th May 2013

New music in tonight’s show included Alessi’s Ark covering The National:

…Jamie Isaac:

…Alphabetical Order Orchestra:

…Koreless:

…and  Camera Obscura:

The full show is available on the BCB Listen Again page for 29th May. Here is the full playlist:

Wolf People – ‘Empty Vessels’ (single and LP – Fain) (Dead Oceans)
Jamie Isaac – ‘Softly Draining Seas’ (single) (House Anxiety)
Tweens – ‘Rattle&Rollin’ (demo) (Fat Cat)
Camera Obscura – ‘Do It Again’ (single and LP – Desire Lines) (4AD)
Raffertie – ‘Trust (feat. YADi) (b-side to ‘Build Me Up’ single) (Ninja Tune)
Alphabetical Order Orchestra – ‘The Architect’ (unreleased)
She & Him – ‘I Could’ve Been Your Girl’ (LP – Volume 3) (Double Six)
Koreless – ‘Last Remnants’ (Yugen EP) (Young Turks)
Phosphorescent – ‘Ride On / Right On’ (LP – Muchacho) (Dead Oceans)
Teleman – ‘Steam Train Girl’ (single) (Encona)
Alessi’s Ark – ‘Afraid Of Everyone’ (LP – The Still Life) (Bella Union)
The National – ‘Pink Rabbits’ (LP – Trouble Will Find Me) (4AD)
Boats – ‘Great Skulls’ (single) (Kill Rock Stars)
Honeyslide – ‘Deep Architecture’ (double a-side single with ‘Drippin”) (Critical Heights)
The Travelling Band – ‘Hands Up (acoustic version)’ (single)

Eclectic Mainline 22nd May 2013

New music floating my boat this week includes Electric Ills:

…Cindytalk:

…Steve Mason:

…Guided By Voices:

…and Happy Walter Jr:

If you wish to listen back to this week’s Eclectic Mainline in full, you’ll find it on the BCB Listen Again service. Here is the full playlist: Continue reading →

Buffet Meet The Scaramanga Six – again! (show #49)

Back in June 2011 we had Paul and Steve Morricone from The Scaramanga Six on our show, where they exclusively revealed they’d be recording their next album in Chicago with Steve Albini. Well that album, Phantom Head, was unveiled last month so we got them back in the studio for a chat, live session and lots of Albini themed record spinning.

Steve & Paul from The Scaramanga Six live at BCB

You can catch up with the show via BCB’s Listen Again feature here

Here’s what we played!

1. Beachbuggy – Kicking Back
2. PJ Harvey – 50ft Queenie
3. Pixies – Break My Body
4. Paul & Steve Morricone (live in the studio) – They Put You On A Pedestal
5. Low – Immune
6. The Scaramanga Six – I Will Crush Your Heart
7. The Breeders – Hellbound
8. Paul & Steve Morricone (live in the studio) – Twist The Knife
9. The Auteurs – Married To A Lazy Lover
10. Mclusky – Collagen Rock
11. The Ex – Listen To The Painters

And check out the new album from The Scaramanga Six here!

See you next month!

Love Team Buffet

A Canadian focus on Going North from Nashville – Monday 20th May, 10-11pm

Join John & Sue for a  great selection of music from Canadian artists, old & new………..(plus a Dylan track – well, Minnesota is quite near to Canada!)

Arcade Fire: Keep the Car Running

The Band: In a Station

Ronnie Hawkins: Who Do You Love

Sarah Harmer: Phoenix

Neil Young: Helpless

Wailin’ Jennys: Old Man

Leonard Cohen: Suzanne

Blood Meridian: Most Days

Great Lake Swimmers: Your Rocky Spine

Joni Mitchell: Case of You

Cowboy Junkies: Two Soldiers

Bob Dylan: Canadee-i-o 

Howie Beck: Don’t Be Afraid

Bruce Cockburn: Call me Rose

Eclectic Mainline 15th May 2013

One of the most interesting albums I have heard this year is Voices by Kink Gong on Descrepant Reocords.  The album is based on location recordings Laurent Jeanneau made in South East Asia.  Laurent has manipulated the recordings, but with reverence to the original performers, and the end result is rather marvellous.  As I first listened, and read about the project, I thought of the field recordings I made during my own travels in South East Asia.  I keep thinking that I should do something with these recordings, at the very least put them online for people to hear.  Hearing Voices may just be the inspiration I need to finally do this.  Have a listen to the hypnotic, captivating opening track from Voices here:

I played that in my show on BCB this week, as I did this by Deco Child:

If you care to listen back to the show, you will find it on today’s BCB Listen Again page. Here’s the full playlist:

Still Corners – ‘Midnight Drive’ (LP – Strange Pleasures) (Sub Pop)
Lord Tang – ‘Fog’ (LP – Lord Tang) (Alarm)
The Electric Soft Parade – ‘Brother, You Must Walk Your Path Alone’ (single) (Helium)
Scout Niblett – ‘No Scrubs’ (LP – It’s Up To Emma) (Drag City)
Jon Hopkins – ‘Open Eye Signal’ (single) (Domino)
King Gong – ‘Baozoo Khen’ (LP – Voices) (Discrepant)
Alessi’s Ark – ‘Tin Smithing’ (LP – The Still Life) (Bella Union) (this week’s Brief Candle)
Balthazar – ‘Sinking Ship’ (single) (Play It Again Sam)
Lloyd James Fay – ‘From The Eyewall’ (single and LP – The Black River Chronicles) (Platform)
Betacicadae – ‘jjjjj’ (LP – Mouna) (Elagua)
Deco Child – ‘Skinless (Part One)’ (single) (Ninja Tune)
She & Him – ‘Never Wanted Your Love’ (single) (Double Six)
Neil Halstead – ‘Spin The Bottle (Alt. Version)’ (single) (Sonic Cathedral)